I am the queen of organization. But the one place in the house that defies my vast organizational skills is the junk drawer. The junk drawer is that place in everyoneís home that becomes the final resting place for every pen, penny, tchotchke and doohickey that doesnít belong anywhere else. The problem with the junk drawer, of course, is you can never find anything in it. It is like the black hole of the kitchen universe. Things get sucked in and then they never come out.

From time to time, the junk drawer becomes so completely overstuffed with junk that I do actually have to clean it out.
While I am happy to finally get the drawer organized, Iím not a big fan of the actual cleaning. Since I am not the only one to dump stuff in the junk drawer, I have discovered such treasures as wadded-up tissues, teeth the tooth fairy forgot to take away, and even a dead mouse, once. Knowing that dead things could be expertly hidden in that drawer for a prolonged period of time, I might have suggested to authorities that they look for Jimmy Hoffa in there. But since a) the drawer isnít really big enough to hold a person and b) if they did find him, it would have turned my kitchen into a media circus and then I would never have time to organize my junk drawer again, I didnít bother.
The cause for the most recent excavation of the junk drawer was a pencil. My daughter needed one and although I swore up and down that there was a box of them in the junk drawer, neither of us could find one in there. However, since we pulled half the contents of the drawer out while searching for the pencil, I figured I might as well finish the job.
Here is what I found in the drawer:

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